Rejoinder to Rabbi Stuart Dauermann’s and Boaz Michael’s Response Papers

Rabbi Stuart Dauermann and Boaz Michael have been valued friends of mine for years, and I greatly appreciate them both as thinkers and teachers. So it is an honor to read and learn from their responses to my paper. Before addressing Stuart’s main criticism, namely that my effort to develop a definition of marriage is inherently problematic, I will open with a point of strong agreement. Stuart rightly argues that the “one-flesh” union of man and woman in marriage should not be limited to or equated with sexual union. His treatment of 1 Corinthians 6:15-17, and particularly the distinct